{"id":7036,"date":"2014-01-20T21:38:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:43:10","slug":"ill-have-what-the-internet-is-having","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/01\/ill-have-what-the-internet-is-having\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ll Have What the Internet Is Having"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/stew1bg_040200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7037\" title=\"Public Domain Image of Stew\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/stew1bg_040200-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Public Domain Image of Stew\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/stew1bg_040200-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/stew1bg_040200-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/stew1bg_040200.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We all have seen it and our mouths water at the sight of it: <a href=\"http:\/\/dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/05\/food-photography-how-to-shoot-ugly-food\/?_php=true&amp;_type=blogs&amp;_r=0\">food porn<\/a>, they call it.\u00a0 Photos of ready-to-devour delicacies, in process or on the table.\u00a0 My unscientific research shows that, after dogs and cats, steaming contents of saut\u00e9 pans and dinner plates is the most popular subject of photos posted by one&#8217;s Facebook friends.\u00a0 (If dogs and cats were on Facebook, we would no doubt be inundated with pics of dog dishes and dead mice.)<\/p>\n<p>We respond to photos of food uncritically, as if we had prepared it ourselves &#8212; it never occurs to us that the dish might be too salty or too bland, or that the beef is rancid or the shellfish undercooked, or that the dish contains hazardous levels of aluminum or arsenic or kalamata olives.\u00a0 No, it all looks delicious.\u00a0 Photos can&#8217;t lie.\u00a0 So sit down and eat up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all have seen it and our mouths water at the sight of it: food porn, they call it.\u00a0 Photos of ready-to-devour delicacies, in process or on the table.\u00a0 My unscientific research shows that, after dogs and cats, steaming contents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2014\/01\/ill-have-what-the-internet-is-having\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28315,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions\/28315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}